About the event

During the Arab Spring, the journalist Hamid Dabashi wrote that “The world is giving birth to a new geography of itself.” Given the rapid social and political transformations of this century, what different poetic and artistic articulations reveal themselves in this nexus of emotion, affect, and place? How is geographical space transformed, through affective and/or aesthetic processes, into artistic site or public space? Join keynote speaker Carrie Noland (French & Italian School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine) for this day-long conference exploring the implications of situating the artist, or artwork, in terms of geographical identity.